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00:00:37.000So a very cool piece of news yesterday after nine months on the International Space Station.
00:00:44.000286 days in space, according to the Washington Post.
00:00:46.000The NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Butch Wilmore splashed down in their space exit dragon capsule off the coast of Florida just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday.
00:00:55.000So originally, that flight on the Boeing Starliner was supposed to last eight days, and they ended up up there for 286 days.
00:01:04.000Which has to suck, to be honest with you.
00:01:06.000Imagine that you're going to space, you're going to tell your family that you're going to see them in a little over a week.
00:01:10.000And almost a year later, you're still up there.
00:01:13.000Now, depending on your family situation, maybe that's an unpaid vacation, but whatever it is, it's not great.
00:01:19.000And the failures of the Biden administration to work with Elon to actually get those people down is pretty astonishing.
00:01:27.000couple months into the Trump administration, and Musk is sending SpaceX, the much maligned Elon Musk is sending SpaceX to, you know, rescue astronauts where they are stranded in space, which also probably is the beginning of an amazing rom-com that'll come out in a year or two.
00:01:42.000The astronauts have said that they were actually prepared to stay longer, and they were eager to pitch in by conducting science experiments and maintenance aboard the orbiting laboratory.
00:01:49.000I mean, it probably gets pretty boring up there for a year.
00:01:52.000I hope that they at least liked each other.
00:01:53.000NASA officials said the decision about when and how to get them home was made based on safety and keeping the space station occupied, not politics.
00:02:00.000They were joined on their return trip by the NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russia's Alexander Gorbadov.
00:02:34.000A year-long stint in space would have significant physical effects on astronauts due to the microgravity environment and other factors associated with space travel.
00:02:41.000Those effects include musculoskeletal changes like bone density loss.
00:02:44.000You can lose 1 to 1.5% of bone mineral density per month in space.
00:02:53.000You have muscle atrophy because the muscles weaken and waste away because you're not using them all the time.
00:02:57.000It could cause fluids to shift upward so you'll have a puffy face and some chicken legs.
00:03:02.000You don't get amazingly great looking in space, actually.
00:03:06.000Apparently you have significant arterial stiffness, like a 17 to 30% increase in arterial stiffness.
00:03:12.000You can also have eye structure changes, vision problems.
00:03:16.000You will get taller, so maybe I should try it.
00:03:18.000You know, I've been ripped a lot about my height, so, oh, worthwhile, I don't know, I'll have to talk to my wife.
00:03:24.000And space anemia, decreased production of red blood cells occurs in space.
00:03:28.000So it requires extensive rehabilitation, in other words, just for these astronauts to sort of re-enter the Earth's gravitational pull and then be made healthy once more.
00:03:40.000But good for Elon Musk, good for SpaceX, and it's good to have these astronauts home.
00:03:44.000Meanwhile, the other big news of the day is that President Trump had his long-awaited two-hour phone call with Vladimir Putin of Russia.
00:03:51.000And the account from President Trump and the account from Putin, they don't quite match up.
00:03:56.000There's some good things that happened on this call.
00:03:58.000We can be hopeful that this is the first step toward a longer-lasting ceasefire.
00:04:04.000Let's just say that Putin is being extremely cagey about these negotiations, and the United States really needs to take that under advisement.
00:04:09.000So President Trump put out the following statement after the two-hour phone call, quote, my phone conversation with President Putin of Russia was a very good and productive one.
00:04:16.000We agreed to an immediate ceasefire on all energy and infrastructure with an understanding.
00:04:20.000They'll be working quickly to have a complete ceasefire and ultimately an end to this very horrible war between Russia and Ukraine.
00:04:25.000This war would never have started if I were president.
00:04:27.000Many elements of a contract for peace were discussed, including the fact that thousands of soldiers are being killed, and both President Putin and President Zelensky would like to see it end.
00:04:34.000That process is now in full force and effect, and we will hopefully, for the sake of humanity, get the job done.
00:04:39.000Now, you will notice, first of all, that this is not a full ceasefire agreement by the Russians.
00:04:44.000So the Ukrainians have already said, President Zelensky has already said that they are willing to engage in a full 30-day complete ceasefire.
00:04:51.000Not on energy, not an infrastructure, completely.
00:05:49.000So that is, in fact, a sign of disrespect to the United States and should be taken as such.
00:05:52.000If Zelensky was disrespectful in the Oval Office, which he was, then Vladimir Putin, being an hour late to talk to the most powerful person on planet Earth is also a sign of disrespect.
00:06:02.000Putin has made this one of his tactics, as sort of his negotiating tactic, is to keep world leaders waiting.
00:06:07.000The conference took place right before the high-stakes call was scheduled with Trump between 4 and 6 p.m. Russian time.
00:06:13.000As the clock ticked past 4, Putin's pal on the host of the event, Shokin, looked at his watch, saying the call was scheduled for before 6 p.m. And Putin said, don't listen to him.
00:06:23.000To which Shokin implied, now we need to see what Trump says about this.
00:06:26.000And then Putin said that he was referring to the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov.
00:06:31.000Eventually, he arrived at about 5 p.m. According to a variety of different reports, the Russian takeaway from the call was not the same as the American takeaway from the call.
00:06:43.000According to the White House readout, quote, the leaders agreed the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire, and permanent peace.
00:06:56.000So there will be no full ceasefire until technical negotiations, which means that Putin can keep pushing.
00:07:02.000The negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East, presumably Saudi Arabia.
00:07:05.000The two leaders agreed that a future with an improved bilateral relationship between the United States and Russia has huge upside.
00:07:10.000This includes enormous economic deals and geopolitical stability when peace has actually been achieved.
00:07:17.000Now, again, I think that the takeaway from...
00:07:22.000the Russian side is not quite the same as the takeaway from the American side.
00:07:26.000And the reason that you can tell this is because while President Trump mentioned Russian commitment to an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, Moscow did not quite say the same thing.
00:07:36.000Instead, Moscow apparently was taking the opinion that the ceasefire would begin with energy and transportation and infrastructure when it began.
00:07:47.000Because minutes after the announcement of all of this, There was, in fact, a Russian-guided bomb that took out the power in the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk.
00:07:57.000Fox News has added that Kiev is already under drone attack.
00:08:00.000It's unclear if Russia violated the energy infrastructure ceasefire.
00:08:04.000Or the energy and infrastructure ceasefire, because maybe they're just attacking infrastructure as opposed to energy infrastructure.
00:08:12.000Whatever the case, it is clear that at this point, the Ukrainians are far more willing to come to the table than Vladimir Putin is.
00:08:20.000And the distinction between what the U.S. said and what the Russians said is that the U.S. said that the Russians had committed to an energy and infrastructure ceasefire.
00:08:27.000But the Kremlin talked of only energy infrastructure.
00:08:31.000In other words, they won't attack power stations, but they'll still attack roads.
00:08:36.000They will still attack trains and all the rest of it.
00:08:41.000So, Russia seems to be playing around.
00:08:42.000The one thing that they said they would not do was, again, agree to a full ceasefire because they feel like they have momentum at this point.
00:08:52.000Apparently, Trump was, in fact, able to secure one element of the ceasefire proposal.
00:08:56.000The Kremlin announced that Russia and Ukraine would release 175 of each other's prisoners of war.
00:09:00.000And apparently Moscow would also free 23 seriously wounded Ukrainian servicemen received treatment in their home country.
00:09:09.000The Kremlin specified, again, that energy infrastructure would not be attacked, but then apparently they hit infrastructure within an hour, basically.
00:09:18.000The Ukrainian member of parliament, Inosovson, posted attacks.
00:09:21.000Putin backed Trump's 30-day pause on energy strikes and then broke his word in less than an hour.
00:09:27.000So, the president in the United States should hold Russia to its word.
00:09:31.000If they want to get to stage two of a ceasefire, then they need to stop attacking energy infrastructure.
00:09:36.000And we need to know what their conditions are for actually getting to a stage two, whatever the next step is.
00:09:43.000Because the conditions so far that Putin has actually articulated for a full-scale ceasefire or an armist disagreement are totally unpalatable.
00:09:53.000Vladimir Putin, for example, is demanding that literally all Western arms supplies to Ukraine be halted for him to conclude a ceasefire agreement.
00:10:03.000For Ukraine to simply agree that they will receive no more weaponry from the outside in exchange for what a promise that maybe Russia will come to the table into a ceasefire would be totally insane.
00:10:14.000According to Bloomberg, Russia wants to stop all arms supplies to Ukraine.
00:10:18.000Its minimum goal is to cut off American aid.
00:10:20.000So Putin is hoping that these sort of baby steps are going to lead the United States to cut off the Ukrainian aid again.
00:10:28.000The United States needs to ratchet up the pressure to get Putin to the table because he clearly is not taking this seriously enough.
00:10:36.000Unnamed European officials say it's unlikely Europe would agree to Russia's demand that allies block arms supplies to Ukraine during any truce.
00:10:43.000Because obviously, Ukraine would then be left naked, and Russia would just rearm with help from the Chinese.
00:10:51.000Obviously, Vladimir Putin believes that he has the upper hand in negotiations.
00:10:54.000It is up to the allies to demonstrate to Vladimir Putin that he does not, in fact, have the upper hand in the negotiations, and he needs to start making concessions.
00:11:02.000The Ukrainians are willing to come to the table.
00:11:04.000Now it's time for Vladimir Putin to do the same, if in fact...
00:11:07.000He is telling President Trump the truth and would like to see an end to this war.
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00:13:34.000Chief Justice Roberts felt the necessity sort of rapid President Trump on the knuckles on Tuesday.
00:13:41.000The reason being President Trump demanded the impeachment of a federal judge who's been hearing a challenge to the removal of Trenda Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
00:13:53.000Now, I'm not sure why it's necessary for Chief Justice Roberts to sign into chat here and talk about this.
00:14:15.000Obviously, I don't think that President Trump should be calling for the impeachment of judges based on decisions not going his way.
00:14:19.000That's why the appellate procedure exists.
00:14:22.000With that said, why is Roberts signing in here?
00:14:26.000Presumably to earn some sort of public credibility with a left that has already learned to despise, Chief Justice, John Roberts.
00:14:36.000Tuesday's statement was not the first time that Roberts had scolded politicians for disparaging the judiciary.
00:14:40.000Roberts did this back in 2018, after Trump attacked an Obama judge for ruling against him in an immigration case.
00:14:46.000And Roberts said then, we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges, or Clinton judges, while he has an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal rights to those appearing before them.
00:15:10.000They have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country.
00:15:15.000So, again, Roberts is an institutionalist.
00:15:17.000He believes that somehow he's shoring up the credibility of the institution by sort of wrapping Trump over the knuckles on this sort of stuff.
00:15:23.000Instead, all he's doing is annoying everybody on the right who understands that Trump says a lot of things and know that he is not going to attempt to impeach these judges.
00:15:31.000Meanwhile, the DOJ continues to be at war with this particular judge, Judge Bosberg, who is in fact an Obama appointee.
00:15:41.000The Trump administration on Tuesday defended its deportation of those Trenderagua members, saying that two of the three flights that supposedly had been held up by the judge had already left before the judge ordered them not to.
00:15:54.000U.S. District, Judge James Bosberg, initially ordered those flights to return to the United States.
00:15:58.000The administration argued that the planes were already in international waters and the ruling no longer applied.
00:16:05.000Robert Serna, an acting field office director, according to Axios within ICE, said in a court filing, two of those three planes carrying migrants had departed for El Salvador before 7.25 p.m. Eastern time, when the judge issued the order.
00:16:17.000A third plane departed after that, but its passengers were not removed solely based on Trump's executive order, Cerna said.
00:16:24.000A separate filing says the government maintains there is no justification to order the provision of additional information and that doing so would be inappropriate because even accepting plaintiff's accounts of the facts, there's no violation of the court's written order.
00:16:35.000So as of Tuesday, there are still 54 alleged Trenta Aragua gang members in detention.
00:16:40.000About 172 are on the non-detained docket.
00:16:44.000So that is going to be battled out in the courts.
00:16:47.000Meanwhile, another district court judge has now decided to basically enjoin the enforcement of the Trump cuts to USAID.
00:16:57.000And this judge, Judge Theodore Twang, has now ordered Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to immediately give USAID employees access to their email payment, security notification, and all other electronic systems.
00:17:10.000The basic notion here, apparently, is that they have a right to their jobs.
00:17:16.000Now, presumably, that right springs from the USAID enabling legislation.
00:17:24.000But USAID was originally set up by executive order, as in by the president.
00:17:28.000So in his ruling, he goes out of his way to suggest that then it was sort of recodified in the late 1990s by Congress, and that now USAID is almost untouchable by the president of the United States.
00:18:07.000It's the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who's presiding over the dismantling of USAID, which, by the way, under the original executive order that established UISID, it was placed under the auspices of the State Department.
00:18:20.000Judge Chuong, again, tried to bash Musk saying that he, quote, usurped the authority of the public's elected representatives in Congress to make decisions on whether, when, or how to eliminate a federal government agency and of officers of the United States duly appointed under the Constitution to exercise the authority entrusted to them.
00:18:36.000And this is a very flawed reading of the balance of powers.
00:18:39.000Basically, the case seems to be that if Congress sets up an executive branch agency and then...
00:18:46.000create sort of general rules and allocations to that agency, that is now untouchable by the executive branch.
00:18:52.000And even the people inside the executive branch can't be fired by members of the executive branch, in which case you have now set up in unanswerable fourth branch of government.
00:19:00.000That branch of government firings and hirings can't be done by Congress.
00:19:06.000And meanwhile, the president apparently can't either cut or fire.
00:19:10.000This, of course, is to maintain the size and scope of the federal government.
00:19:13.000The entire Trump administration is oriented against it, of course.
00:19:18.000Meanwhile, President Trump is challenging the legal order by firing two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday.
00:19:27.000A White House official confirmed that Democratic commissioners Alvado Bidoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter had been fired.
00:19:34.000The firings drew criticism from Democratic senators.
00:19:40.000No more than three of the five commissioners can come from the same party.
00:19:44.000Both of these fired FTC members plan to sue to reverse the filings.
00:19:49.000The Supreme Court did rule in 1935, upholding a law allowing FTC commissioners to be fired only for good cause like neglecting their duties.
00:19:57.000So presumably, there will be some sort of case made by the Trump administration that these particular FCC commissioners did in fact neglect their duties, and then he will find some titular Democrats to fill the seats.
00:20:09.000FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Republican Commissioner Melissa Holyoke have said that they support the administration's legal position that the White House actually has the power to fire those agency officials.
00:20:23.000The White House does, in fact, control government agencies.
00:20:26.000And so it'll be interesting to see whether the Supreme Court takes that up and then overturns that 1935 decision, pointing out that the unitary executive is in fact a feature of the American government.
00:20:40.000So the greatest threat to the presidency is not, in fact, the judiciary.
00:20:43.000The Supreme Court, as I say, is going to hash out a lot of these questions, and I have faith that the Trump administration is not simply going to ignore the Supreme Court.
00:20:49.000It's one thing to say a district court judge does not have the power to enjoin action at the USAID.
00:20:55.000or that a district court judge can't magically turn airplanes around that are in international waters.
00:20:59.000It is another thing to ignore the Supreme Court of the United States wholesale.
00:21:02.000I do not think there is intent inside the Trump administration to do just that.
00:21:06.000The real threat to the Trump administration is not that.
00:21:08.000The real threat to the Trump administration in the end is the economy.
00:21:12.000If the economy should go south, the Trump administration will go south with it.
00:21:15.000This is true for literally every president.
00:21:18.000The stock market has been bouncing around a lot lately.
00:21:21.000On Monday, the stock market jumped significantly.
00:21:24.000On Tuesday, the stock market dumped significantly.
00:21:27.000The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 260 points.
00:21:30.000Right now, investors are not quite sure what to do.
00:21:32.000And apparently neither is the Federal Reserve.
00:21:34.000There's been a lot of talk about the Federal Reserve lowering those interest rates.
00:21:38.000The problem is that the inflationary curve has not yet stopped.
00:21:41.000Stock prices still seem to be too high.
00:21:44.000The PE ratio at the Dow Jones Industrial Average remains significantly above historical averages.
00:21:51.000It remains at about 25. Normally, you want the PE ratios, the price to earnings ratio, to be down in the 16 to 18 range.
00:22:04.000Now it's unclear what the Federal Reserve is going to do.
00:22:06.000According to the Wall Street Journal, not long ago, it looked like Jerome Powell's final test as Federal Reserve Chair would be a stick to soft landing.
00:22:12.000Now, with about a year left in his term, he faces a serious complication, navigating a trade war that threatens to push prices up while simultaneously weakening the economy.
00:22:21.000During a seven-year tenure that included President Trump's first trade war, pandemic, historic inflation, and high-profile bank failures, says the Wall Street Journal, Powell's final act also unfolds with an imperative to preserve the institution's apolitical DNA that protects its autonomy in setting interest rates.
00:22:35.000So, President Trump is pushing him to lower those interest rates, but again, inflation continues to hover in the 2.8 to 3 percent range.
00:22:46.000Everybody is sort of holding their breath to see what the Fed does.
00:22:48.000I think it's very unlikely that the Federal Reserve is going to drop the interest rates.
00:22:53.000And if inflation were to accelerate, then officials would have to think about the idea of actually increasing those interest rates again.
00:23:01.000A lot of the sanguinity about the economy, sort of satisfaction with the economy, would return if there weren't such high levels of dyspepsia over President Trump's tariff plans.
00:23:11.000Because nobody actually knows what's going to happen on April 2nd.
00:23:13.000President Trump has said that April 2nd, everything is going to change.
00:23:16.000His Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik has said the same, that a giant set of reciprocal tariffs are going to be put in place.
00:23:21.000Now some of the details are sort of being spelled out.
00:23:23.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump administration officials are roiled in debate over how to implement the president's pledge to equalize U.S. tariffs with those charged by other nations.
00:23:33.000officials have recently weighed whether to simplify the complex task of devising new tariff rates for hundreds of U.S. trading partners by instead sorting nations into one of three tariff tiers.
00:23:42.000That proposal apparently was later ruled out, adding that the Trump team is still trying to figure out how to implement an individualized rate for every separate nation.
00:23:50.000And Trump has repeatedly said that reciprocal tariffs would mean what they charge us, we charge them.
00:23:55.000But the problem is that it's not just like the country has one giant tariff rate on the United States.
00:23:59.000There are different tariff rates on different goods from every single country.
00:24:03.000So it's not as easy as, oh, Canada just charges a blank at 5% rate, we'll charge them a 5% rate.
00:24:09.000Let's say that they tariff, for example, American lumber, which they do.
00:24:14.000If we tariff their lumber, that makes no difference to them since, again, they are importing our lumber, and we're not importing their lumber, presumably.
00:24:21.000You have to find some sort of equivalent in the market and then tariff that.
00:24:26.000It's a very, very complicated procedure.
00:24:30.000Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said on Fox Business on April 2nd, each country will receive a number that we believe represents their tariffs.
00:24:36.000So for some countries, it will be quite low.
00:24:38.000For some countries, it will be quite high.
00:24:41.000And again, there's been talk about these sort of three-tier tariff proposal, which is really a blunt instrument.
00:24:48.000I mean, like there's a big difference between many of the countries that would end up in the same tier.
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00:27:02.000Meanwhile, apparently, Vice President J.D. Vance is taking on a larger role in Trump's trade agenda.
00:27:06.000He's been helming policy discussions, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:27:09.000There were several lengthy meetings in recent weeks among top Trump aides, including an hours-long meeting at the Naval Observatory, which is, of course, where the vice president lives.
00:27:16.000The meetings have centered on how to create a comprehensive tariff policy that achieves Trump's goals, but also has some more flexibility.
00:27:24.000The reciprocal tariff plan is expected to be introduced April 2nd along with additional 25% duties on a handful of industries like autos, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals.
00:27:34.000And again, one of the big questions here is what does the U.S. Trade Representative's office do?
00:27:41.000All of this is a very complicating factor.
00:27:43.000The markets aren't quite sure whether this is going to be a rough Trump proposal where the edges get sanded down or whether it's going to be a blunderbuss that hits everybody.
00:27:53.000did an event yesterday in which he spoke about tariff policy and economic policy more generally.
00:27:58.000The vice president has sort of a foot in both camps.
00:28:01.000He obviously is a representative of the sort of MAGA protectionist position on some economic proposals.
00:28:07.000At the same exact time, Vice President Vance has a long history of warmth toward Silicon Valley.
00:28:13.000And tech pros do, in fact, rely on a wide variety of free trade and technological advancement.
00:28:18.000So he's trying to square a circle that I'm not sure it can be totally squared right here.
00:28:23.000Again, the vice president's a super smart guy, and this attempt is probably as good as an attempt can be.
00:28:28.000However, you're talking in some cases about mutually exclusive policies.
00:28:31.000If you're talking about radical increase in tariffs, at the same time as you talk about the technological advancements to be made by the United States amid economic advancement, that is a tough road to hoe.
00:28:43.000So here is Vice President Vance standing up for tariffs as a quote-unquote necessary tool.
00:28:48.000President Trump is starting with and is dead serious about rearranging our trade and tariff regime internationally.
00:28:56.000We believe that tariffs are a necessary tool to protect our jobs and our industries from other countries, as well as the labor value of our workers in a globalized market.
00:29:08.000In fact, combined with the right technology, they allow us to bring jobs back to the United States of America and create the jobs of the future.
00:29:16.000Okay, well, I mean, let's be real about this.
00:29:18.000When he says, combined with the right policy, you end up with the jobs of the future and we bring everything back, okay, here's what a tariff does.
00:29:26.000A tariff protects the industry that it is designed to protect and it taxes everybody else.
00:29:36.000It subsidizes some businesses at the expense of others.
00:29:39.000Now, if there are national security-oriented businesses and we got to protect them because, God forbid, there's a war, you need to have all of that living in American shores.
00:29:48.000If the goal of a tariff war is to get everybody else to lower their tariffs so that you end up with a freer trade regime than when he started, that's great too.
00:29:56.000And again, I'm not sure exactly where the president stands on all this because he obviously is dedicated to...
00:30:02.000a large portion of the sort of free trade agenda when it comes to, for example, freedom of the seas.
00:30:06.000This would be one of the reasons why we are currently bombing the Houthis in Yemen, who've been holding up free trade via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
00:30:13.000However, when you say that tariffs, combined with the right technology, create the jobs of the future?
00:30:20.000I do not see how that is in any way, shape, or form correct.
00:30:25.000He says, when you erect a tariff wall around a critical industry like auto manufacturing, and you combine that with advanced robotics and lower energy costs and other tools that increase the productivity of you as labor, you give American workers a multiplying effect.
00:30:36.000Well, or you could not erect a tariff wall and you could combine the non-teraf wall with advanced robotics and lower energy costs and lower taxes and better tools to draw America, draw businesses to America.
00:30:49.000You could do that without taxing the American consumer, actually.
00:30:53.000I mean, one of the great sort of fibs that's been told about free trade is that free trade is the largest reason for the decline in manufacturing jobs in the United States.
00:31:06.000In fact, the reality is that increases in productivity via technology have been the largest contributor to job loss in the manufacturing industries in the United States.
00:31:17.000So when Vice President Vance yesterday suggested that globalization and it's hunger for cheap labor, that's somehow preventing innovation.
00:31:24.000Well, I mean, to be fair, globalization is also the process whereby people trade good services and information so as to create significantly more sophisticated product, which is why the stuff that you have now is way, way, way better in quality and price than the stuff you had in, say, 1990.
00:31:40.000I'd ask my friends, both on the tech optimist side and on the populist side, not to see the failure of the logic of globalization as a failure of innovation.
00:31:51.000Indeed, I'd say that globalization's hunger for cheap labor is a problem precisely because it's been bad for innovation.
00:31:59.000Both our working people, our populists, and our innovators gathered here today have the same enemy.
00:32:06.000And the solution, I believe, is American innovation.
00:32:10.000Because in the long run, it's technology that increases the value of labor.
00:32:15.000Innovations like the American system and the interchangeable parts revolution, it sparked, or Ford's moving assembly line that skyrocketed the productivity of our workers.
00:32:24.000That's how American industry became the envy of the world.
00:32:28.000Okay, but the American car industry became the envy of the world before, before the imposition of, for example, the Smoot-Hawley tariffs.
00:32:35.000In fact, large-scale tariffs, protectionism and subsidization of the American auto industry in the 1950s and 1960s meant that Toyota ended up out competing the hell out of the American auto industries by the 1970s.
00:33:44.000And if the Trump administration continues down the sort of subsidization and tariff line as opposed to the deregulatory and tax cut line, then I think that they are in for some hurt on the economic front.
00:33:58.000That has proved out pretty strongly by past market indicators.
00:34:03.000And again, this is coming from a place of I want President Trump to succeed wildly on the economy because if he does not, then the agenda that I hold dear and that he holds here are going to be an awful lot of trouble.
00:34:12.000Meanwhile, the presidents of the United States had for a long time promised that there would be additional documents coming in the JFK assassination.
00:35:07.000But we're going to be releasing the JFK files.
00:35:12.000So, 80,000 or so pages of the JFK files were in fact released.
00:35:18.000It was all put together in something like 1,123 PDF documents.
00:35:25.000So people are combing through these in search of the detail, the smoking gun that chose that it was the Cubans or the Russians or the CIA or the Israelis or something.
00:35:35.000I'm just going to break it to you right now.
00:35:41.000The most credible theory about Lee Harvey Oswald is that he was some sort of Soviet agent, considering that he literally went to the Soviet Union, and then he came back from the Soviet Union, and he was at the Cuban embassy.
00:35:51.000Other than that, you know, not much is my expectation.
00:35:55.000There are going to be some pages here of people who showed up to law enforcement and then made statements about things that they thought had happened, people that they knew, which does not constitute any real sort of evidence.
00:36:09.000There's tons of documentation on this.
00:36:11.000Again, 99% of all JFK files had already been released.
00:36:15.000You're talking about literally millions of pages of documents that had been released before.
00:36:20.000These documents are not categorized or presented in any real organized way.
00:36:24.000It's possible some of them are not really new.
00:36:28.000David Garrow, who's a historian who's written a lot about intelligence agencies, he said, this dump is profoundly more impenetrable than all the previous more annotated ones.
00:36:37.000He said he hadn't had much luck so far.
00:36:38.000He told the New York Times, I'm trying to find stuff that's been re-reviewed and re-released with new information because some of it's unredacted.
00:37:11.000All of the conspiracy theorizing around JFK while entertaining.
00:37:16.000is, in my opinion, specious and not just specious, in some case, maliciously oriented.
00:37:22.000If you want to see a fuller breakdown of that, we have a series behind the paywall over at Daily Wire Plus called Debunked, in which I did a full episode about the JFK assassination going through some of the most common accusations about the JFK assassination.
00:37:36.000In any case, I'm for more transparency, so I'm very happy that Trump did this.
00:37:40.000I think he should do exactly the same thing on the RFK assassination.
00:37:43.000I think you should do exactly the same thing on the MLK assassination.
00:38:34.000The reason that you're so defensive about all this is, I don't care to kill JFK.
00:38:37.000I mean, I do, because it's really interesting.
00:38:41.000But I noticed that the calendar says 2025 and he was killed in 1963.
00:38:45.000And so my opinion about who killed JFK has about as much relevance as who killed William McKinley, which is, or James Garfield, which is to say not an enormous amount.
00:38:57.000It's not going to change the world in any real way, barring the revelation that many of those same people are still in the government today.
00:39:04.000But I don't expect that any of that is going to be in there.
00:39:06.000I would be, shall we say, rather shocked if that were the case.
00:39:09.000But it's not going to put conspiracies to bed because conspiracies have a life of their own.
00:39:14.000Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to just flail around.
00:39:19.000They have no idea what to do with President Trump.
00:39:42.000You do not get to speak as a Jew about how you're fighting anti-Semitism while you greenlit the Iran nuclear deal made room for every anti-Israel anti-Semitic person in your party.
00:39:55.000Refuse to condemn the worst excesses of your own party.
00:40:04.000Hey, so he actually had to cancel his book tour.
00:40:06.000Hilariously enough, he did not cancel his book tour because he really shouldn't be speaking about anti-Semitism.
00:40:13.000ridiculously, the reason he had to cancel his book tour is because so many Democrats are ticked off at him over greenlighting the continuing resolution, which shows you where the violence is on the American spectrum these days when even the Senate minority leader can't face his own constituents in New York, afraid that they'll yell at him.
00:40:29.000According to Politico, he's postponing that book tour for security reasons as he faces intense backlash from the party base in the wake of last week's government funding vote.
00:41:33.000kind of intellectually clubbing a baby seal, but amazing TV.
00:41:38.000Chuck Schumer was invited, not because he's a woman.
00:41:41.000I mean, I don't know the answer to that.
00:41:43.000Only he can identify, but he was invited to talk about all of this, where he then explained why he had not signed on to the, why he had not signed on to the filibuster of the continuing resolution.
00:42:42.000Governor Pritzker's Chief of Staff, Anna Ann Caprera, has said the following.
00:42:47.000The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, right, and moderate.
00:42:52.000It's between those who want to fight and those who want to cave.
00:42:55.000And it gives me no pleasure to say this to you because we are friends, but I think you caved.
00:42:59.000I think you and nine other Democrats I don't think you showed the fight that this party needs right now because you're playing by a rule book where the other party has thrown that rule book away.
00:43:10.000True. And so in my view, what you did really was in supporting that GOP partisan bill that Democrats had no input in, we cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to gut Social Security, to gut Medicare, to gut Medicaid.
00:43:25.000Why did you lead Democratic senators to play by that book that the Republicans are not playing by?
00:44:32.000The government provided the basic law and order necessary to the preservation of private property in the United States and the protection of free speech.
00:45:20.000And... He played footsie with Bannon, and this caused him to be ripped up and down by the inflatable off the side of the freeway to use car lot, Tim Walls.
00:45:36.000Here was Tim Walls with Gavin Newsom, Newsom, praising Steve Bannon as a person who he can talk with and who really reflects a lot of democratic principles.
00:45:46.000How do we put some of those guys back under Iraq?
00:45:49.000I think we have to first understand what their motivations are.
00:45:52.000I think we have to understand what they're actually doing.
00:45:56.000I think there's a lot of that, but I don't think it's exclusively that.
00:45:59.000When you talk to a guy like Steve Bannon, you know, he reminded me a little bit of my grandfather when he talks about working folks and he talks about how we hollowed out the industrial core of this country.
00:46:50.000I don't know if we're going to fall into that place where we want to, okay, we challenge you to a, you know, a WWE fight here type of thing.